Independence Quotes - Page 26

• Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Hands, Community, Black

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• It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

  Don DeLillo

  Culture, Use, Literature

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I too am a government.

  Gustave Courbet

  Government

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• Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.

  Deborah Tannen

  Men, Focus, Different

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down quite happily with half-nude tribesmen once a country achieves independence. It is the context of power which changes behavior and transmutes antipathy into sympathy.

  Lewis Nkosi

  Country, White, Racism

  Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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• Independence didn't have to be exile.

  Julia Alvarez

  Exile

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• The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Political, Bother

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.

  Leland Stanford

  Men, Rights, Should Have

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• The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.

  William Barclay

  Prosperity, Danger

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• Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I have had a growing awareness that this characteristic makes possible all the other personality characteristics of the creative person: independence of thought and judgment, honesty, perseverance, curiosity, willingness to take risks and the like.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Perseverance, Honesty, Being In Love

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• July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work.

  Adam C. Engst

  4th Of July, Days Off, Politics

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• World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at Sarajevo shot the heir to the Austrian throne, but by some semiliterate, whacked-out "loner" who lobs a rocket into a nuclear arsenal in order to impress Brooke Shields.

  Philip Roth

  War, Order, Political

  Philip Roth, Ross Miller (2008). “Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991”

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• Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Determination, Gun, Race

  Herbert Marcuse (1971). “An Essay on Liberation”, p.12, Beacon Press

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• I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.

  David Cronenberg

  Country, Mother, Betrayal

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• The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

  Carl Bernstein

  Ideas, Political, Revolution

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• I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard?

  Elisabeth Shue

  Hard Work, Character, Kids

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• In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.

  Raul Castro

  Party, Fighting, Games

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• To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Pride, Self, Decision

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• If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.

  Dennis Chavez

  Boys, Practice, Battle

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• Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.

  John Cornyn

  Accountability, Political, Honest

  "Senator calls for Holder's resignation amid challenges over leak probe, Fast and Furious". www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Independence is a very subjective assessment.

  P. Chidambaram

  Assessment, Subjective

  "Chidambaram: Poor Conditions ‘Dehumanize’ Police". Interview with Geeta Anand, blogs.wsj.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.

  Mario Draghi

  Government, Euro Crisis, Sound

  "'We Couldn't Just Sit Back and Do Nothing'". Interview with Michael Sauga,Anne Seith, www.spiegel.de. October 29, 2012.

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• To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Years, Example, Haitian

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.

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• As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.

  Gavyn Davies

  Thinking, Views, Long

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• I'm for economic independence.

  Charles Evers

  Economic, Economic Independence

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